Shake It Up…

Welcome to our second week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we celebrate the New ‘Renewal’ Moon of February 8, and the beginning of the New Lunar Year of the Fire Monkey: The year of the Monkey is ideal for a quantum leap in your life! Now is the time to shake things […]

Into the Liminal

Welcome to our first week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we take a moment to be grateful for the space that we created during January’s Clearing. ‘Marsh Morning’: from ‘My Island Home’,  Drozda, Acrylic on canvas, 1989. 54 x 40″  Now, for February, we turn our attention toward breathing in Renewal. Renewing […]

A Handy Practice

THE ART OF CREATING THE FUTURE Glacier National Park Deer, Kevin LeFevre, photographer Welcome to our fourth week on the January art/life trail ride. This week we make space for new creative vision. To facilitate this we did a dismount at the beginning of the month taking time out of the saddle. January’s keyword: ‘Clearing’ creates […]

Grace Pace

Welcome to our fourth week on the January art/life trail ride. January keyword: ‘Clearing’ relates this week to clearing the mind. A clear mind creates an open path into The Mystery.  Going forward we’re making way for renewed creative focus. ‘Esperance’, Drozda, mixed media/canvas, 72 x 54” The Mystery opens into a clearing of synchronicity. We have 7 […]

Stand Clear…

Welcome to our third week on the January art/life trail ride. January’s keyword: ‘Clearing’ … relates to creating space. Creating space seems like a topic that doesn’t need much additional investigation…and yet as we all know sometimes there is soooo much and tooooo much and we don’t know where to start…some of us suffer from […]

2016: Compassion in Action

‘Facing Her’, Drozda, Acrylic/wood, 16 x 20 “, private collection Welcome to our first week on the January art/life trail ride. What a turn in the trail this is!  From your current vantage point see yourself gently and safely sinking deeper into the feminine half of the Natural Year. The two quarters making up the fall […]

Eat My Words

Welcome to the art/life trail ride for the last day of 2015. It’s been quite the ride has it not?   Now as we turn the page on the Gregorian calendar it may be helpful to remember that here on the art/life trail we have eleven weeks remaining in the Natural Year. We follow the path of […]

May You Be Peaceful

Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. Now on the other side of winter solstice we come to the gateway into the Mystery where we will explore for the coming 12 weeks.  My Holiday wish to you and yours… May You Be Peaceful     May All Beings Be Peaceful May we gift ourselves with Metta: May I be […]

Buffeted by the Storm

Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. We’re coming up to the close of the calendar year and as we peer out we can see…up ahead…here on the path; a sign post. Clear indicator  Notice  Look ahead The winter solstice on December 21 is a day of equipoise…a day of equal light and dark…  a day to […]

Everything Wants to Be Round

Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. December 11:The New Strength Moon:  Twig reflection, Drozda, 2006 On our art/life trail ride keep in mind that Strength and balance are represented by the circle. … the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. …The sky is round. and … […]